Interview Insights: Cambridge

Here's our database of first-hand student interview experiences. You can also watch students talk about other aspects of university in our student videos.

Human, Social and Political Science

Newnham (2016)

I was given a text about nationalism and asked about it - questions focused on how I understood it …

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Natural Sciences (Biological)

Newnham (2019)

In each interview I had two interviewees, both of whom were very friendly! It felt more like a disc…

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Engineering

Newnham (2020)

Each of my two interviews had two interviewers, with each of them asking one extended question. Thr…

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English

Newnham (2021)

In both interviews I was given unseen extracts from poems, which I had 15 minutes to look over and …

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Classics (3 years)

Newnham (2021)

For the first half of each interview, I was given half an hour to look at an unseen source - one te…

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Newnham (2021)

I had 2 interviews, one was a more general interview and the other was subject-specific. In the sub…

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* Despite interviews being online this year, the experiences and advice from previous years will still be relevant.